Alright, here we have some answers to our questions.
Finishing this wasnt easy for me, because there is still so much i would like to change but i think this is it.
Having the child in the midground here to pull your eyes to the mysterious power and not get lost in the crowd was essential (got really important feedback on this from inkognit)
First time i challenged myself with a huge Illustration something like this and i learned a ton (mostly that i have to do so much more).


 

These 2 images show a stage where i thought i did settle pretty much everything.
took my eyes off for a few days and came back to it.
I enhanced the costume of the main character to make it more "interesting" and make him a "special", because he is, he is the chosen one with the Golden Ticket.
But something still was missing, i liked the overall compostion but my eyes were jumping all over the place and what were these pillars really doing anyway?

In my first sketch i was planning on a cloudy and overcast lighting situation, becuase i already was planning that the pillars of connection are gonna spark in some way, so they pop more.
But doing a very rough color pass, I thought that a warm sunset is gonna really make the felling of the scene so much more enjoyable and interesting.
So i did some expoloration on colours and kept it very dark in the early stages.
Slow and steady ha ha ha ... (took me ages)

After setting the rough layout of my compostion, i was wondering what the new way of connection looks like.
I was going way sci-fi with the first ones and i thought to myslef, why go so overboard with these.
When we can relate to it much more when we take extisting shapes and slighty change it to make it more interesting.
So i went and took a "ordinary" overhead power line and changed it up so it fits this world.

After debating and getting to like one of my Ideas of this compositon of the main character and many other people looking to a mysterious but very powerful and interesting Pillar that connects everything in a new way, i was playing with perspective, really liked it that we emphasize more with the main character when he faces away from us. like we are all sitting/standing there and wondering about the future.

This was my playing field in the first hour or two.
Okay i wrote some random words onto a piece of paper first, but my visual exploration started here.
My Main Keywords for the challenge really were "change" "mysterious" "wonder" "looking ahead".
All these words connect for me with the word Change and going into an unknown future.
We all wonder and we all look into the future with a bit of a mysterious eye.